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All of this quarantine cooking and baking has been a boon for at least one business you probably had not considered: vanilla. It s a key ingredient in cake adidas originals s and cookies not to mention ice cream and even Coca-Cola . In recent months, worldwide vanilla sales have doubled.Which gives new relevance to a story correspondent Seth Doane was working on even before the pandemic, one that took him on a journey thousands of miles away to the rainforests of Madagascar, the remote African island nation where a pale white orchid has a most colorful story. Josephine Lochhead is not only an admirer of the plant, but she runs Cook Flavoring Company, her family business in California which has been making vanilla extract for more than 100 years. It makes my heart swoon! she said of the plant. I love vanilla! This spring, Cook s saw an astounding 500-precent increase in sales. They import, literally, tons of the raw material. Growing and harvesting vanilla is incredibly labor-intensive. Each one of the vanilla orchid s blossoms must be pollinated by hand, before noon, the day it blooms. We call it the queen of the rainforest, Lochhead said. A vanilla orchid. CB adidas originals ultraboost S News And this queen demands constant attention. But while Madagascar supplies 80% of the world s vanilla, it s not native to this island. Mexico s the only place in the world adidas samba where vanilla was grown, and it was the Fiix How is the Boeing 737 Max 8 different from other Boeing 737 airplanes
With debate intensifying in Washington about when to bring home U.S. troops in Iraq, the Baker-Hamilton Commission that called for all troops to be out by next spring may go back to work, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod. We gave the president an opportunity a few months ago for a bipartisan solution to Iraq, said co-chair Lee H. stanley website Hamilton. He chose not to follow that immediately. I think the realities on the ground have made our proposals more attractive. The House of Representatives passed a bill providing a million dollars to reconstitute Baker-Hamilton, adds Axelrod. Hamilton says while conditions in Iraq have changed since their initial report last fall, their main point has n stanley website ot: the security of Baghdad s neighborhoods shouldn t be the priority for U.S. forces mdash; training Iraqi troops should be. I mean, the only way you really get out of there is to make that the primary mission of U.S. forces, said Hamilton.But a Congressional investigation concludes that after spending $19 billion on exactly that, the Iraqi security forces are not yet ready to assume responsibility for the nation s security, Axelrod reports. Investigators charge that the Department of Defense cannot report how many of the 346,500 Iraqi military and police personnel are operational today.In other d kubki stanley evelopments:The U.S. military announced Wednesday that coalition forces killed a senior al-Qaida leader and his courier, both Turks, in an operation in northern Iraq.

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POTISKUM, Nigeria - Teenage suicide bombers, suspected to be Boko Haram extremists, killed at least 24 people in sep adidas originals arate blasts Tuesday at crowded bus stations in two northern Nigerian cities 300 kilometers 185 miles apart.In an apparently unrelated development, an American missionary has been kidnapped from a school in central Kogi state. The Rev. Phyllis Sortor was taken away Monday by several abductors, according to a statement on the website of the Free Methodist Church in Seattle. Kidnappings for ransom are common in Nigeria, and many victims are returned unharmed.In the northeastern town of Potiskum, a young man forced his way onto a bus and detonated explosives hoka laufschuhe that killed 12 people and injured 20, according to the bus driver and hospital records.Hours later, two young men were blamed for explosions that ripped through a bus station in northern Kano city, killing at least 12 people and injuring many more, according to state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris. Witnesses said the bombers appeared to be 17 or 18 years old. Boko Haram militants using child bomber hoka schuhe s in Nigeria attacks 02:23 The explosions triggered fires that destroyed two buses and a car, Idris said. Firefighters rushed to the scene of twisted metal, wailing people and billowing smoke. Ambulances with sirens blaring carr Qdvy Baby and toddler among 6 family members shot dead at home in Mexico
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life. But his government ruled out paying compensation for the abuse an stanley cup d neglect that many suffered.The British government has estimated 150,000 British children may have been shipped abroad between 1618 and 1967, most from the late 19th century onward. After 1920, most of the children went to Australia through programs run by the government, religious groups and children s charities.The programs, which ended 40 years ago, were intended to provide the ch stanley becher ildren with a new start - and the Empire with a supply of sturdy white workers. But many children ended up in institutions where they were physically and sexually abused, or were sent to work as farm laborers.At a ceremony in the Australian capital of Canberra attended by tearful former child migrants, Rudd apologized for his country s role in the migration and extended condolences to the 7,000 survivors of the program who still live in Australia. We are sorry, Rudd said. Sorry that as children you were taken from your families and placed in institutions where so often you were abused. Sorry for the physical suffering, the emotional starvation and the cold absence of love, of tenderness, of care. Sorry for the tragedy - the absolute tragedy - of childhoods lost. The apology comes one day after the British government said Prime Minister Gordon Brown stanley cup quencher would apologize

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A surfer was killed by a shark on Tuesday off the Australian east coast, police said. The man, aged in his 50s, had been surfing off Forster, 137 miles north of Sydney, when he was attacked late in the morning, a police statement said.Onlookers pulled the man from the water suffering critical injuries to his upper right thigh, police said. Despit adidas samba adidas e the best efforts of paramedics and bystanders at the scene, the man could not be resuscitated, NSW Ambulance said in a tweet.Forster beaches have been closed.Police said they were working with g dunk homme overnment authorities to identify the species of shark. Lower North Coast Surf Li adidas originals samba fe Saving branch president Brian Wilcox said a drone search after the attack had spotted two sharks in the area. It s pretty unprecedented. I can t recall ever having a shark attack in this area, Wilcox told Australian Broadcasting Corp. We ll ... do drone missions for the next couple of days, within the Tuncurry Beach area, just to make sure there are no sharks hanging around, Wilcox added, referring to the beach where the surfer was attacked.The man s name has not been released. It was the first fatal shark attack in Australia since November when a 55-year-old surfer was mauled near the northwest town of Broome.Last year, the toll of eight fatalities in shark attacks was Australia s highest since 1929, when nine died. The introduction of shark nets at popular beaches in the 1930s led to a significant fall in fatal attacks.According to the Fl Zesw Journalist Maria Ressa fighting for free speech after another arrest
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third d stanley mug ay of clashes that have killed at least 12 people.The violence followed a melee and stampede after a soccer match Wednesday stanley kubek in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which 74 people died in the world s worst soccer violence in 15 years. Protesters accuse the security forces of stanley termoska failing to prevent the bloodshed.After two days of running street battles, clashes broke out again in downtown Cairo Saturday as demonstrators marched on the Interior Ministry. Security forces fired volleys of tear gas at rock-throwing protesters calling for the army to relinquish power. The ministry has been a frequent target for the protesters because it is responsible for the widely distrusted police.In a bid to end the violence, a group of lawmakers and public figures said they met with Interior Ministry officials to try to negotiate a cease-fire. But security forces disregarded a plan to hold their fire, and lobbed tear gas and fired birdshot on a group of mediators attempting to convince protesters to clear a street leading to the ministry. The continued clashes are a way for the ministry to distract attention from the real demands for the military leaders to step down, said Bassem Kamel, a lawmaker who tried to negotiate the truce. We know the protesters aren t angels and come with a lot of anger from what happ

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Atalaia do Norte, Brazil mdash;Brazilian authorities began using helicopters Wednesday to search a remote area of the Amazon rainforest for a British journalist and Indigenous official missing more than three days. Civil police in Amazonas state also said they had identified a suspect, who was arrested for allegedly carrying a firearm without a permit, which is common practice in the region. Gen. Carlos Alberto Mansur, the state s public security secretary, said later that officials did not have any concrete evidence to tie the man to the disappearances, however. We re looking for a possible link, but for now, we have nothing, Mansur said at a news conference. The suspect mizuno running , Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado, remained in custody, he said. Police have questioned five others since the investigation started, but no arrest related to the disappearances has been made, authorities said in their first joint public address. Journalist Dom Phillips, who has been a regular c hoka ontributor to British newspaper The Guardian, and Bruno Arauacute;jo Pereira, an employee of the Brazilian Indigenous affairs agency with extensive experience in the region, were last seen early Sunday in the Sao Rafael community, in the Javari Valley Indigenous territory. Supporters hold a vigil outside the Brazilian Embassy in London for Dom Phillips and Bruno Araujo Pe yeezy slide reira, a British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official who are missing in the Amazon, June 9, 2022. Zkqp Zombie fires spark highest-ever carbon emissions in the Arctic Circle
Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show China s frustration with communist ally North Korea and speculate Beijing would accept a future Korean peninsula unified under South Korean rule, according to the documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.Th stanley flask e m stanley mug emos indicate the enormous import American and South Korean diplomats place on China s attitude toward the future survival of the isolated and impoverished hard-line communist regime in Pyongyang.The release of the documents follows new tensions in the region with North Korea unleashing a fiery artillery barrage on a South Korean island that killed four people a week ago. The regime also warned that joint U.S.-South Korean naval drills this week had pushed the peninsula to the brink of w stanley flasche ar. China would be comfortable with a reunified Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the US in a benign alliance as long as Korea was not hostile towards China, then-South Korean vice foreign minister, Chun Yung-woo, is quoted as telling U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Kathleen Stephens, in February.The diplomatic cables warn, however, that China would not accept the presence of U.S. troops north of the demilitarized zone that currently forms the border between the two Koreas. Economic opportunities in a reunified Korea could further induce Chinese acquiescence, Chun says.Chun predicts the government in Pyongyang would last no more than three years following the death of ailing leader Kim Jong Il, who is seeking to pass po

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LYON, France mdash; Interpol says a Chinese official who was reported missing has resigned as head of the international police agency. The update came after Beijing announced Meng Hongwei was under investigation in China.Interpol said Sunday night that Meng had resigned as president of the agency s executive committee, effectively immediately. It did not say why.Earlier Sunday, the disciplinary organ of China s ruling Communist Party said Mengis under investigation on suspicion of unspecified legal violations.The party s watchdog for graft and political disloyalty said on its website late Sunday that Meng, China s vice minist yeezy slide er of public security, is suspected of violating the law and is currently under the monitoring and investigation of China s new anti-corruption body, the National Supervision Commission.Meng s wife told reporters Sunday in the French city of Lyon she hasn t heard from her husband since Sept. 25. Grace Meng says he sent an image of knife that day, she thinks as a warning he was in danger. Four minutes later, he sent her a message saying, Wait for my call. She said the call never came and she does not know what happened to him. Grace Meng wouldn t speculate Sunday on what might have happened. From now on, I have gone from sorrow and fear to t mizuno volleyballschuhe he pursuit of truth, justice and responsibility toward history, she said. For the husband whom I deeply love, for my young children, for the people of my motherland, for all the wives and chil airforce dren s husban Dfhe Stories behind Day of the Dead
Iraq s most feared terror leader called on his followers Thursday to show patience and prepare for a long struggle against the Americans, promising in an audiotape posted on the Internet that ferocious wars ... take their time but victory was assured.Elsewhere, U.S. troops launched fresh raids around the northern city of Mosul, killing five suspected insurgents, in a bid to rein in guerrillas and safeguard the Jan. 30 national elections. Iraqi forces sealed off main routes into Baghdad a day after a wave of deadly car bombings.The 90-minute message, purportedly from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, appeared to be aimed at rallying his forces following the loss of their base in Fallujah and at marshaling support as Iraqis prepare for their first poll since the collapse of Saddam Hussein s regime. Fighters who have taken the path of jihad have to realize the nature and t stanley us he demands of the battle toward the required goal, the speaker said. This gr stanley cup oup has to be patient in the path that it has taken and ... not to hurry victory. The promise of God will be fulfilled no matter what. The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified. It appeared be stanley mugs fore President Bush was sworn in for a second term that begins under the shadow of a continuing insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi is the leader of an al Qaeda affiliate that was responsible for kidnapping and beheading several foreigners, including Americans, before the fall of their Fallujah base. The United States has offered a $

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President Obama c adidas originals donna alled for a review of U.S. assistance to Egypt in the aftermath of Mohammed Morsi s ouster and urged the Egyptian military to quickly restore power back to the people.In a statement released by the White House hours after Egypt s military leaders declared an end to Morsi s term and suspended the con adidas samba stitution, the president said he is deeply concerned by the army s actions.Egypt military: President Morsi ousted, constitution suspendedState Dept. orders diplomats to leave Egypt Given today s developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt, the statement said. Egyptian military ousts president Morsi 02:23 In the hours leading up to the military s official takeover, the White House maintained a hands-off approach to the Middle East country s chaotic affairs. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters earlier Wednesday the U.S. is not taking sides in this. We ve been very clear, she said in a press conference.But as CBS News yeezy correspondent Chip Reid reported from Washington, remaining neutral has its risks. Critics have accused the president of standing by while Egypt, a key U.S. ally in a turbulent region, descends into disorder. Egypt receives $1.5 Uzes Police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables in China
European Union diplomats have reached tentative agreement to remove an Iranian opposition group from the 27-nation bloc s list of terrorist organizations, officials said Fri cups stanley day.A final decision on the status of the People s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran is up to the EU foreign ministers, who meet Monday, said a diplomat who asked not to be named in line with standing practice.Another official dealing with the matter confirmed that the panel of EU ambassadors had agreed to recommend to their foreign ministers that the group be removed from the list of banned organizations despite protests by Iran, where the Mujahedeen are an illegal opposition group.The move could further complicate EU relations with Tehran at a time when t stanley mug he two sides are negotiating on that nation s nuclear program, which the European Union and the United States fear is being used to build atomic weapons.The Mujahedeen have been on the U.S. State Department s terror list since the mid-1990s. They were placed on the EU list in 20 stanley flask 02. If the foreign ministers agree to remove the Paris-based group, it will be the first time an organization has been de-listed by the EU.The European Court of Justice has repeatedly ruled that EU governments have failed to prove the group is a terrorist outfit. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98c0c4ac-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,

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Paris mdash;As France swelters through its second heat wave this year, towns and villages a yeezy cross the country have decided to cancel their traditional Bastille Day fireworks displays, afraid they could spark fires.At least 4,200 acres of forest had already been lost Wednesday to wildfires that broke out just a day earlier in the southwest near Bordeaux. More than 6,000 residents and tourists had to flee homes, hotels and campsites in the region as the fires raged. One of the blazes destroyed around 450 acres of old pine trees near Europe s tallest sand dune, the Dune of Pilat. Firefighters attempt to control a forest fire spread on the communes of Landiras and Guillos, southwestern adidas yeezy France, July 13, 2022 nike air max . THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP/Getty As temperatures soar into the upper 90s across much of southern Europe, officials have warned that the high temperatures and a regional drought mean any stray spark could start a devastating blaze. Across the south of France, where several areas are on fire alert, many fireworks displays have been banned over the national holiday. Fireworks displays are traditional on July 14, Bastille Day, but also July 13.Officials cancelled all public fireworks displays across the southern Var region, which is prone to summer forest fires, and also banned the use of personal fireworks between July 6 and July 20. A woman drinks in the shade at th Pdqr British Airways passengers endure 3-day journey from hell from Orlando to London
Sitting in the first-class cabin whisking him away from nine months detention in Japan, chess icon Bobby Fischer on Thursday launched a rambling diatribe against the United States, calling it an illegitimate country that should be given back to the American Indians.The reclusive Fischer - who is taking up residence in Iceland to avoid arrest in the United States - also unleashed his anger at Israel and likened President Bush to a comic book character.Fischer said he was kidnapped in Japan, and that Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi were in cahoots trying to deprive him of freedom and return him to the United States, where he is wanted on criminal charges. Bush does not respect law, Fischer said in an interview with Associa stanley website ted Press Television News on board the SAS flight to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he had a stopover before being flown to Iceland, which this week granted him citizenship. It s like in the comics, like Billy Batson used to say Shazam! and he becomes Captain Marvel. He Bush just says Enemy Combatant! Now you have no legal rights. It s a farce, he sai stanley cup quencher d. This is absolutely cooked up between Bush and Koizumi. Fischer, wide-eyed and bushy-bearded after his months in detention, paused frequently to collect stanley cup his thoughts. Wisps of hair were matted against his temples, and he once gulped deeply from a glass of milky liqueur before explaining why he felt his detention in Japan for using an invalid passport was illegal.The eccentric

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Noam Sohn was an eighth grader in Westchester County, N.Y., when he started to feel a certain responsibility to help protect a country thousands of miles away. I felt that if I got to go to Israel and feel safe then I should also help th hoka schuhe e next generation feel safe, said Sohn. In one way or another Israel is a homeland for me and I started to feel that this might be a better place for me to begin my life as an adult. At the age of 19, Noam Sohn was ready to leave the comfort of his home and his family to enlist in the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces IDF . He is not alone. Rou adidas originals ghly 1,000 American citizens serve in the Israeli army, according to IDF estim mizuno ates. They are called lone soldiers - citizens from other countries who choose to volunteer for the IDF. Noam Sohn in IDF uniform CBS News Most of the lone soldiers are in their 20s. Last month, two of them lost their lives in Gaza - Max Steinberg, 24, from Southern California and Sean Carmeli, 21, from Texas.Sohn, who is now 21, remembers the day he landed in Israel. It was a complete shock to my system, he recalled. I was really nervous. I didn t know what unit I was going to get into. If I was going to make new friends like the friends I have in the United States. If I was going to miss my family too much. It wasn t peaceful, said Sohn s mother, Nora Anderson. Because you re going to sleep kno Yghn Chelsea fan involved in Paris racial incident speaks
CBS News Consultant Col. Ret. Mitch Mitchell s analysis of what the United States is, and isn t, doing well in the battle to stabilize Iraq.BACKGROUND: On April 7 2003, I wrote an article entitled The Next War in Iraq. In that article I suggested that the next war had already begun and that our forces would be the principal targets for those who resented our presence in their country. Since there was no formal surrender, tho stanley uk se who opposed our presence in Iraq continued the fight and, indeed, have been killing US soldiers almost daily. This remains intolerable. It should not be happening and could be stopped if U.S. officials at the highest levels looked for innovative ways to bring peace and stability to the country. Such change can not occur if we continue to use our most precious commoditymdash;peoplemdash;to man stationary outposts, guard important buildings and patrol in areas where the likelihood of a stanley cup ttack is far too high. It can not occur if we don t find better ways to work with the people of Iraq.WHAT WE ARE DOING Commanders in Iraq are now reporting some success in controlling the population and eliminating organized and random resistance. Their tactics have evolved in response to the situations they face daily. Many feel they are finally gaining the upper hand, and some suggest victory may only be months away. They are wrong, but some of what they re doing is beginning to have positive effects. The long and short of it is that they are adapting to their envi

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Tehranmdash; Ibrahim Raisi, Iran s conservative judiciary chief, won last Friday s election in a landslide. But Iran s official media don t mention a couple of embarrassing facts. For instance, 3 million voters spoiled their ballots, and more than half of Iran s el yeezy igible voters didn t even show up at the polls.Turnout was the lowest in the Islamic Republic s history. It s not clear how much that fact will weaken Raisi s legitimacy, but it is a sensitive subject.At his first press conference on Monday, Raisi implied that it was the coronavirus pandemic that adidas originals samba had kept people away. Whether people voted for me or another candidate, he said, or for some reason like COVID didn t go to a polling station mdash; I still serve the Iranian nation. COVID-19 may indeed have been a factor. Iran is struggling with a serious outbreak, and a lack of vaccine doses. But apathy and disillusionment played a bigger role. Talks to revive Iran nuclear deal after election 08:58 Millions of Iranians have watched their standard of living collapse over the past four years under the pressure of U.S. economic sanctions. They simply don t believe Iran s Islamic leadership has the will, or the skill, to make their lives better. I have voted for 42 years, and I haven t seen any improv air max 96 ements, one man told us. Why would Mzns Israeli Retaliation Begins
President George W. Bush on Monday urged Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to make sure that any guilty U.S. soldiers are punished for shameful and appalling acts a stanley cup gainst Iraqi prisoners. Members of Congress pushed for swift action.Rumsfeld has not read an internal Army report that spelled out abuses at one prison in Iraq, officials said Monday, although they said he has kept abreast of the allegations that Iraqi prisoners have been mistreated.Rumsfeld has been publicly silent on the controversy since it began when the broadcast photographs taken by U.S. military guards inside the Abu Ghraib prison last fall.The White House, mindful of the fallout, said Mr. Bush had called Rumsfeld before leaving on a campaign trip Monday and checked on the status of the Defense Department investigation. The president wanted to make sure appropriate action is being taken against those responsible for these shameful and appalling acts, said spokesman Scott McClellan. Pentagon officials were scrambling to explain what was being done to address the problem, which they had known about stanley water jug for months.The Army stanley water bottle report, said to have been completed in February by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba and first disclosed in the May 10 issue of The New Yorker magazine, chronicles abuses at the prison and cites serious Army command failures, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times reported Monday.The reports said military police were instructed by military intelligence officers to soften up the Iraqi pris

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GRENOBLE, France -- MichaelSchumacher s family has provided French investigators with the helmet camerathat the Formula One great wore during a skiing incident in which he wascritically injured, his manager said Saturday.Schumacher s condition remains critical but stable, manager Sabine Kehm wrote in an e-mailSaturday. He has been in a medically induced coma since Sunday, when he fellwhile skiing and struck his head on a rock.Kehm also sought to play down mediaspeculation about Schumacher s health, and requested respect for the family sprivacy. Citing consultations with Schumacher s doctors, she said no pressconfer airmaxplus ences were expected before Monday.Schumacher s wife, Corinna, his fatherRolf and brother Ralf together with family doctor Gerard Saillant and the FIAPresident visited the hospital in southeastern Grenoble on Saturday.The German driver and his familytypically celebrate Christmas, New Year and his birthday at their ski house inthe French resort of Mer salomon zapatillas ibel, where the accident happened. Instead, they have been keeping watchover the retired champion at his bedside. yeezy They take turns to watch him:Michael s wife, children, his brother, said former Formula One driverPhilippe Streiff, who is one of several members of the F1 community to visitthe hospital. They are very traumatized. It s very upsetting to see thatfor the family. About 100 fans also converged on the hospital Friday, arriving by bus from Italy or by carfrom northern France and other places, saying they f Kefr Estrada: Gone, But Not Forgotten
ROME The Vatican announced Wednesday that the conclave of cardinals to choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI will begin as early as March 15. Benedict, meanwhile, met with the public for the first time since he handed in his resignation. The audience hall at the Vatican, where he holds his weekly audi stanley website ences, was packed to the rafters.The hall holds 7,000 people. Across the back, some in attendance had unfurled a large banner reading, Thank you, Holy Father. Pope resigning for the good of the church Vatican reveals Pope has a pacemakerFull text of Pop stanley water jug e Benedict XVI s resignation announcementThe Pope returned the thanks, expressing gratitude to the Catholic masses for their prayers, which he said he felt almost physically.Benedict asked the crowd, which had given him a one-minute standing ovation, to pray for the church, for himself and for his successor.Click on the player above for all the latest on the Pope s audience, and the process to pick his successor, from Allen Pizzey in Rome. Change At The Vatican More Pope gradually improving from chest infection in Rome hospital stanley cup